Don Imus on Fox: 'You've got nuts in this building'
Radio provocateur Don Imus, whose daily talk show begins simulcasting on Fox Business Network on Monday, said the cable channel “is a much nicer place” than the other networks that have run his program.
That said, “you’ve got nuts in this building, and I’m not one of them,” Imus told Neil Cavuto on Friday. “I love Glenn [Beck], but I’ll tell you this, it doesn’t end well.”
The debut of “Imus in the Morning” on Fox Business Network comes 2 1/2 years after the shock jock was dropped by CBS Radio and MSNBC for making derogatory comments about the members of the Rutgers University women’s basketball team. Imus said he understood the action they took. “You have an obligation if you work for News Corp. or GE to behave yourself,” he said. “It’s irrelevant as to whether I was kidding or not. It starts with the comment. ... I fully understand that. Probably what I would have done.”
In an effort to mesh Imus’ wide-ranging program with its business news mission, Fox Business plans to intersperse financial news throughout the simulcast, which will start off each morning at 3 a.m. Pacific with news updates from anchors Connell McShane and Jenna Lee. They will provide market news throughout the three-hour program. Former New York Stock Exchange chief Dick Grasso will be one of Imus’ guests on Monday.
Imus said the audience for his radio program is a great fit for the upstart business channel. “It’s a high-income, high-intelligence audience, which is difficult to believe because nobody on the program has an education,” he said.
-- Matea Gold
Glenn Beck belongs at Fox with all of the other wackos they have.
Posted by: Rocco | October 04, 2009 at 02:47 PM
Wow Imus on Fox who didn't see this coming.
Posted by: Who Dathunkit | October 04, 2009 at 03:22 PM
Imus is a pig
Posted by: lida | October 04, 2009 at 03:28 PM
I stopped watching Don Imus after he got on his knees and lubed up for the negro Al Sharpton. Glenn Beck is ten times the man that pretend cowboy will ever be. I am sad that Fox put him on. Those fugly women on that basketball team look like a bunch of gang banging men.
NOBAMA!
Posted by: Rob | October 04, 2009 at 04:08 PM
Not even worthy of comment.
Posted by: ... | October 04, 2009 at 04:18 PM
Guess you missed the part when Imus called David "I Love Barack Obama" Letterman a "punk"!
Posted by: Lisa | October 04, 2009 at 04:52 PM
“It’s a high-income, high-intelligence audience, which is difficult to believe because nobody on the program has an education”
That explains Fox news completely.
Posted by: Art Valla | October 04, 2009 at 05:14 PM
He's creepy.
Posted by: Fade | October 04, 2009 at 05:23 PM
First time on the LA Times web site for me. The odds of my posting anything are low. Loved the words "You've got nuts in this building and I'm not one". I worked in a state owned mental hospital when I was a lot younger. We are one of the very few and might be the only country that has ward of the state legal status except in Texas. We had several diagnoses for everyone free and locked up. Paranoid means fearful only. Microsoft got that wrong but I love them. Beware when a hearing by a judge is lost you can be locked up at the tax payers expense for life no crime needed. Partial electricution is called shock therapy. Sneaky? No doubt.
Posted by: old and dying | October 04, 2009 at 05:26 PM
"You've got nuts in this building"
Well, if Imus had nuts he wouldn't have been on his knees kissing the ass of Al Sharpton!... Keep up the good work Glenn Beck, don't let the liberals get you down.
Posted by: Rob | October 04, 2009 at 06:37 PM
WE ARE LOOKING FORWARD TO DON IMUS BACK ON TELEVISION. HE HAS BEEN OFF TV FOR ABOUT 4 WEEKS AND WE MISS HIM. WE HAVE BEEN IMUS FANS SINCE 1970,WHEN HE ARRIVED IN CLEVELAND.
Posted by: CLAY BENJAMIN | October 04, 2009 at 07:37 PM
Good Morning, Don,
An old friend stopped at my home this morning and brought along his friends, Bernard and Charles. Oh, how good it was to see them!! That old friend, of course, was you. Welcome back...........you have been missed.
Posted by: mary mc mahon | October 05, 2009 at 05:40 AM
My God! FOX network is starting to look like a drug and alcohol rehabilitation home for angry-racists who want to overthrow our government
Posted by: Robert Jones | October 05, 2009 at 10:15 AM
Fox is already the #1 news channel, the addition of Don Imus will bury the competition.
Posted by: Denny Clabaugh | October 06, 2009 at 02:44 AM
So glad the old "gunslingers" are back, may have missed Charles as much as Don, also looking forward to his regulars.
Posted by: Sharon | October 06, 2009 at 08:04 AM
I am so glad Don and the guys are back. It was wonderful to hear Imus in the Morning once again. I didn't know how much I missed that show. The I-Man is the only person on television who asks the really hard questions. Welcome back, Imus. Congratulations, Fox Corp. on putting a great program on the air.
Posted by: cheryl | October 06, 2009 at 02:34 PM
PLEASE DON , YOUR NEW STAGE WHERE YOU AND CHARLES SIT, ITS OK , BUT THE STEPS ARE TOO HIGH, SOMEONE MAY FALL. YESTERDAY ROB BARTLETT ALMOST FELL, PLEASE BUILD 1 MORE STEP DOWN. THANKS GEORGE P.S. I LIKE THE SHOW EVERYONE SEEMS TO BE HAVING A GREAT TIME. THE RATINGS ARE SURE TO GO UP.
Posted by: GEORGE BULAICH | October 08, 2009 at 12:44 PM
Does Roger Ailes hire all the female bimbo broadcasters? I've never seen so many hot blondes in my life.They make my trousers ill fitting.
"People at their most beautiful, Humanity at its ugliest."
Posted by: Joe | October 26, 2009 at 01:50 AM